If You Want A Company To Survive, Start It Up In One Of These 20 States

The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council recently released its Small Business Survival Index for 2010. The index ranks the climate for small businesses in the 50 states (and D.C.) based on public policy factors that include 38 major government-related, or imposed costs.

A few of the issues included in the ranking are:

Taxes

Regulatory costs

Government spending

Property rights

Health care

Energy costs

Crime rate

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Note: Each number ranking in the following slides is out of 51. If a ranking has a "t" next to it, it means it is tied with another state for that particular issue.